Chief Secretary RS Sharma directed the concerned officials on Saturday to ensure Direct Benefit Transfers in seven pilot districts from first day of July. Some of these districts are Ranchi, Ramgarh, Khunti, Hazaribagh, lohardaga, Saraikela.
The CS directed Vishnu Kumar, Principal Secretary of labour, Training and Planning Department to depute a “committed officer” of the department for successful execution of programme. Sharma also directed to ensure payment of pensions with the help of digitised data from August 15 onwards. He expressed displeasure over slow pace of digitisation of data and directed authorities effectively use Pragya Kendras and JAP - IT for enrolment. He said this while addressing the DCs of 24 districts through video conferencing.
He also conducted a review meeting of e-kalyan scheme. After the review meeting he ordered not to grant pre or post matric scholarship without Aadhaar cards. The CS directed to make the process of granting scholarship online for the benefit of students. He directed to prepare new software for monitoring the entire process of granting scholarships and to connect the entire process with mobile and inform students through SMS about the status of their scholarship applications.